pick out

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To remove by picking. transitive
    — But lering and lurking here and there like ſpies, / The devil tere their tunges and pike out their ies!
  2. To select. transitive
    — Theſe broken fragments, John de Fordun, vvho lived in the fourteenth century, collected vvith a pious induſtry, and from them picked out materials, vvhich he formed into a regular hiſtory.
  3. To distinguish; discern. idiomatic,transitive
    — The young birds cry out for food, and the parents returning from the sea manage to pick out their own amid a mass of lookalikes.
  4. To ornament or relieve with lines etc. of a different, usually lighter, colour. transitive
    — a dark green carriage body picked out with red
  5. To detect using one's senses (sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste). idiomatic,transitive
    — And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock.
  6. To send a long pass or cross to. idiomatic,transitive
    — Ameobi skipped away down the left in the 39th minute and tried to pick out Shearer with a cross but his delivery was cut out by goalkeeper Jussi J...
  7. To play music slowly, such as when practicing. transitive

词形变化

picks out present,singular,third-person picking out participle,present picked out participle,past picked out past

词源

From pick + out. Compare Saterland Frisian uutpikke (“to pick out”), Dutch uitpikken (“to pick out”).
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